Here are a couple of photos from a job completed last week.
About 20 metres of oil staining on Tegula driveway. Drive had only been down about 5 months so owners not pleased at all. Someone had used the drive to turn around on.
The before.
The after.
The stains took three cleans to finally get rid of the carbon shadowing.
Looks great but would it not have been quicker and cheaper to lift out the stained blocks and flip them over. Tegula is double sided so would not look out of place. What kind of muppet on what kind of machine made that mess anyway.
Jealous neighbours maybe but probably a delivery driver or something . That second stop mark looks strange though because the vehicle took off at a right angle. Doesn't look right.
looks like he swung in to the left ,reversed back then made a left to get out
did the drive have gates with a stop on it?
i have seen fuel lines snag on these before with similar results
as i sit here and look out of my study window (read box bedroom at front of house) my neighbour has built a massive-ish in and out drive
you would not believe the taxis ,morons skip drivers etc etc that decide to make use of it
the best one is the guy who lives round the corner in a private road,he owns a skip company and on fridays when his guys came up for their money they would use the neighbours drive to turn the skip wagons round!!
how far do you travel roger cleaning drives?
cheers LLL
LLL,
No gates on the drive but I think they wish they had some now.
I do most of the home counties, and travel up to Evesham for a deck, that has to be cleaned & oiled every 12-18 month or so. So really will work anyway with in reason. I may have to go to Spain next year to sort out a swimming pool surround that has been f**ked up by some local cleaning company.
Looks a great job. Did you use a detergant or just water pressure ? Have seen some guys cleaning a tennis court using what they called a whirly gig. It was a push along rotary headed unit attached to a large deisel powered pressure washer. They then washed all crap pulled off by it with a normal pressure washer lance. Do you use it or know of it and is it suitable for domestic driveway use ?
I found an attachment for your standard domestic karcher jet washer which scrubs up blocks really well and it was cheap as chips. Sorted out this client 's drive nicely after the skip men left the place covered in tar and crap. The blocks looked almost new by the time I'd finished. I used the lance after to wash off, so had to replace most of the kilndried sand wasnt thinkin just desperate to get the drive cleaned before the client got back iykwim anyway, his missus was so impressed she's got him out the back cleaning the patio...You should have seen the dirty look he gave me:D lo
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J.D wrote:Looks a great job. Did you use a detergant or just water pressure ? Have seen some guys cleaning a tennis court using what they called a whirly gig. It was a push along rotary headed unit attached to a large deisel powered pressure washer. They then washed all crap pulled off by it with a normal pressure washer lance. Do you use it or know of it and is it suitable for domestic driveway use ?
Combo of chemicals to get this one out, Xylene degreaser, then various strenght Hydrochloric Acid mixes as so not to burn the face of the pavers. Re the flat surface cleaner, yes I do use one, great bit of kit, use them on most flat surfaces no problem, mine needs a minimum of 2500psi to get it moving so you have to match the FSC to the out-put of your machine.
JD, I used to have one,they are excellent for cleaning drives. The pressure washer, rotary cleaner, lance and hoses will cost around £1800 - £2000. The rotary cleaner I had only lifted about 3mm of sand from blocks and made a great job. It is also a lot quicker and doesnt make as much mess as a lance. Depending on how dirty and mossy the blocks were, you could clean between 25 - 40mtrs2 an hour.
P.S. Its not a bad earner too!
